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Old 22-March-2007, 08:42 PM
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Another thing about Apollo 1 is that materials which will not burn all at all, or at least burn readily, in ordinary atmosphere may do so rather violently in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Velcro, IIRC, is one such material.
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